kilbouri / student-sync

Screen monitoring program for educators.

Student Sync is a centralized client and server application that allows educators to remotely view the screens of their students as a live stream. It is a University final project written by Andrew Simon and Isaac Kilbourne.

student-sync's Issues

Change git line endings

The .gitattributes file sets crlf as the line endings.

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Idea List

User manuals for both the client and server

Client program

• Easy to use, minimal dependencies
• Can connect to servers on the local network
• Non-goal is server connection outside of LAN
• Perhaps configurations, such as:
  • Student name (inb4 someone mentions immature students entering their name as "SOMETHING RUDE")
  • max stream framerate (to adjust performance impact for lower end systems)
  • Whether or not to notify when the prof is viewing your screen (ie. A dialog that simply says " is now viewing your screen")

Server program

• Supports hundreds of simultaneous users, all on the same LAN, as lectures range in size from tens of students to a couple hundred
  • As above, non-goal is connections outside of LAN
• Can select one user at a time to start a live video stream of their screen
• Configuration options including:
  • Professor name, for client popups
  • Max stream framerate, again to reduce performance impact (this can be a negotiation before the stream starts, where both sides share their max and the smaller of the two is chosen)
• Simple UI design, SUCH AS a split-pane view with the student list on one side and the screen of a selected student on the other (left and right respectively because that makes sense)
  • Perhaps a menu item to open a second window which has program logs, who knows